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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-054-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Pending

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Biogeochemistry, groundwater monitoring, and environmental assessment (LQ000I4)

Principal Investigator(s): Meagan Eagle, Kevin Kroeger

Affiliate Investigator(s): Faming Wang, MBL Jim Tang, MBL

Information Specialist(s): Meagan Eagle

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect marsh sediment cores in Herring River and Great Barnstable Marsh estuaries on Cape Cod to examine environmental geochemistry and depositional history

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2018-05-01

End Date: 2018-08-31

Equipment Used: Push corer (wh)

Information to be Derived: Physical and chemical properties of marsh sediment cores

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Sample collection was completed and data were released in Science Base

Staff: Thomas Brooks, Adrian Mann, Jennifer O'keefe Suttles

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program around Cape Cod.



Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-016-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2017-035-FA

Location:

Outer Cape Estuaries, Massachusetts, United States

Boundaries
North: 42.0863757 South: 41.62198826 West: -70.47039316 East: -69.90063816

Platform(s):

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on foot

Publications

O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Mann, A.G., Wang, F., Tang, J., Roberts, D., Sanks, K., Smith, T.P., and Kroeger, K.D., 2021, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from Herring River wetlands and other nearby wetlands in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2015–17: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95RXPHB.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Push corer (wh) --- Biology
Geology

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